Improvement in cigar-bunching machines



J. BATTIS, 2d.

Cigar-B-unching Machine. N0.160,380. Patented-Marbh 2,1875.

THE GRAPHIC GOPMOTOrLITHAQBLM PARK PLAGLN-Y.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN BATTIS, 2D, OF SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS.

, IMPROVEMENT lN ClGAR-BUNCHING MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 160,380, dated March 2,1875 application filed August 18, 1874.

-To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN BATTIS, 2d, of Salem,in the county of Essex andState of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Apparatus for Bunchingand Pressing Cigars, of which. the following is a specification:

This invention has for its object the bunching and pressing, 'so called,of cigars; and consists of a block having one or more openings for thereception of cigars and of a follower, by which, pressure being applied,the cigars can be pressed into the form and shape desired.

In the accompanying plate of drawings my invention is illustrated,Figure 1 being a plan View, and Fig. 2 a partial vertical section and afront view.

A, in the drawings, represents a block of wood, having openings B forthe reception of cigars; O, a follower, arranged to fit the opening B;D, a bar, which is free to turn on the screw E in block A, and ofsufficient length to extend across and a little beyond the two openingsB.

The requisite number of cigars for a bunch, say twenty-five, beingplaced upon the string or ribbon in which they are to be secured, thetwo ends of the ribbon are then brought together, and all placed in oneof the openings B. The other opening having been filled in a similarmanner, the followers 0 are then placed in the openings and on thecigars, the bar D turned so as to extend on top and across the twofollowers, and the desired pressure is given to the cigars by the screwE. Now release the screw, turn the bar out of the Way, remove thefollowers, and, giving the proper twist to the string a, the bunch ofcigars is then removed and placed in the box.

By this invention cigars can be bunched and pressed in a much easier,quicker, better, more convenient and economical manner, and by it, also,all the bunches will be of the same size, thereby presenting a muchneater appearance in the box when exposed for sale; and, also, by thisinvention, sufficient pressure being applied, the cigars can readily beshaped to imitate and represent cigars of foreign manufacture, such as,for instance, Figaros, which are somewhat square or oblong incross-section.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

The block A, constructed with the openings B, for the reception of thecigars to be bunched and pressed, in combination with the followers 0 0,horizontal bar D, resting on the follower, and the vertical screw E,passing through the bar and into the block A, for pressing the cigars,as and for the purpose described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 11th day ofMay, A. D. 187;.

JOHN BATTIS, 2D.

Witnesses:

EDWIN W. BROWN, W. F. DrNsMoRE.

